Tuesday, May 17, 2011

NASA visit

Saturday was NASA/Goddard's open house, and after a trip to Dot's recital, we headed over to check out what they had on display. Lines, lines, lines... there were so many people! Jamie did not get to go to the Lego program (someone said that it was just an hour of letting 200 kids play with legos on the floor, so I suppose we didn't miss too much!), but Dot did get to hear a woman speak about being an astronomer. We visited quite a few booths and picked up lots of posters, stickers, and bookmarks. We looked at lots of models and pictures of satellites, and wandered through a rocket garden. The highlight, for Jamie, was what we took pictures of...